Hotel Meninas

Madrid


This is a classy, cool choice. The colour scheme is blacks, whites and greys, with dark-wood floors and splashes of fuchsia and lime green. Flat-screen TVs in every room, modern bathroom fittings, and even a laptop in some rooms, round out the clean lines and latest innovations. Past guests include Viggo Mortensen and Natalie Portman. Some rooms are on the small side.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Madrid attractions

1. Teatro Real

0.09 MILES

Backing onto Plaza de Oriente, Madrid’s signature opera house took on its present neoclassical form in 1997 although, viewed from Plaza de Isabel II,

2. Convento de la Encarnación

0.12 MILES

Founded by Empress Margarita de Austria, this 17th-century mansion built in the Madrid baroque style (a pleasing amalgam of brick, exposed stone and…

3. Statue of Felipe IV

0.16 MILES

This important landmark in the centre of the Plaza de Oriente was unveiled in 1843.

4. Convento de las Descalzas Reales

0.16 MILES

The grim plateresque walls of the Convento de las Descalzas Reales offer no hint that behind the facade lies a sumptuous stronghold of the faith. The…

5. Edificio Carrión

0.17 MILES

The eye-catching Edificio Carrión, on the corner of Gran Vía and Calle de Jacometrezo, was Madrid’s first pre-WWI tower-block apartment hotel. It is now…

6. Plaza de Oriente

0.18 MILES

This graceful square is one central Madrid's most beautiful, home as it is to a royal palace that once had aspirations to be the Spanish Versailles,…

7. Iglesia de San Ginés

0.18 MILES

Due north of Plaza Mayor, San Ginés is one of Madrid’s oldest churches: it has been here in one form or another since at least the 14th century. What you…

8. Plaza de Ramales

0.19 MILES

This pleasant little triangle of open space is not without historical intrigue. Joseph Bonaparte ordered the destruction of the Iglesia de San Juanito to…